Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) by Andres G — 23 Apr 2016
A terrible rip off of much better films.
Sigh... Yet another entry in the "Teen drama in a Dystopian Future" genre, following the lines of The Hunger Games and other much better films.
The biggest problem I have with this film, isn't it's poor acting, or terrible plot, or disjointed story line, or the lack of back story, or the fact that a group of 10 kids RUN through a desert without drinking a drop of water throughout the film (in about 15 minutes I might add). The fact is, every act of this film is a rip off of much better movies.The first act doesn't cover much in terms of a re-cap so yeah, you'll need to watch the first film to understand why it's called Maze Runner. There is no maze in this film.
Society is destroyed leaving ruined cites and a desert landscape around the globe. (Mad max).
An evil corporate network controls the remaining resources in search of a cure for a virus turning people into zombie like creatures. (Resident Evil).
A group of kids escape their totalitarian like bondage and rise against the machine of the evil network WICKED. Then they join a paramilitary group of guerrilla fighters. (Divergent).
"The Flair" has infected the planet except for a few surviving groups of people, and when you are bitten you become one of them. (The walking dead, dawn of the dead, 28 days later... my god I'm over the whole zombie thing already).
Mad max, Resident Evil, Divergent, Dawn of the Dead, 1984, Lord of the Flies... it's like the film couldn't decide which movie or book to rip off for it's plot line.
If it wasn't enough, the film is so inconsistent with it's plot, that you're never really sure of what the hell is going on. One minute their in a government base, next they're running through a desert, next their in a... nightclub for LSD kiddies... then the Rocky Mountains. I felt like the whole thing was a garbled mess. And by the end I was left asking myself, "What was the point?".
I wouldn't recommend this unless you have a low IQ or don't like movies with better stories. This movie was definitely a trial to get through.
1/5.
This review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) was written by Andres G on 23 Apr 2016.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has generally received mixed reviews.
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